![]() This novel is lyrically written throughout, though the first section is somewhat slow to develop. However, by the book’s conclusion in 2014, she has found peace in all aspects of her life. In time, Ijeoma bears a daughter and endures turbulent relations with her husband. Ijeoma does eventually marry a childhood acquaintance, though she secretely longs for her one true love, Ndidi, who she believes has moved on with her own life. Ijeoma is pressured relentlessly to find a husband, in line with her mother’s credo that no woman can survive on her own without a man. In the intervening years, Ijeoma has deep relationships with two different women while trying to hide her sexual orientation from her staunchly conservative, domineering mother, with whom she is eventually reunited. While temporarily lodging with another family, Ijeoma falls in love with a similarly displaced girl, and we follow her entrance into adulthood. After losing her father, the 11-year-old is sent away to safety by her deeply religious mother. In the late 1960s, Nigeria is in the throes of civil war, and this novel’s young narrator, Ijeoma, is both witness to, and victim of, the conflict and bloodshed. ![]()
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